Youth Ministry Update Fall 2017
A New STYL St. Timothy is excited to unleash a new style of Youth Ministry this year. For years St. Tims Youth Ministry has been know as STYL (St. Timothy Youth Leaders) but we have decided to join the movement of Life Teen for our Middle School and High School programs. This is something that our Youth Ministry has already been accustom to. Our popular High School retreats and summer camps are modeled after Life Teen. Many students come off the retreats and the camps on fire for God. Our Mission as a Eucharistic-centered movement within the Roman Catholic Church, Life Teen youth ministry and faith formation,leads teenagers and their families into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and His Church. With the Blessed Virgin Mary as our intercessor and guide, Life Teen seeks to unleash the fullness of the Sacramental power present within the Young Church. Life Teen is proud to provide Confirmation preparation, opportunities to serve at Mass, Eucharistic adoration, discipleship groups lead by adult and parent mentors, service opportunities, retreats, community and fellowship events, integration into the life of other parish ministries, camps and weekly Life Nights following our Sunday 5:30pm evening contemporary Mass. Gatherings are held in the John Paul II Youth Center that offers a lively and engaging youth space that fosters the arts, sports and many other gifts students bring to the program. Be sure to check out our main meeting space, The JPII Underground located in the Youth Center. We meet the goals as identified by the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States in the Renewing The Vision documents on Youth Ministry. Within the Life Teen program is EDGE, our new Middle School Ministry that meets on Wednesday nights 6:45pm-8:15pm through the Fall and Spring Semester. It provides a safe fun place for youth to find solid Catholic community, to get answers to their questions about faith, and, most importantly, to experience Jesus in a profound and personal way. Edge resources speak to the physical, psychological, cognitive, relational, and spiritual maturation of middle school youth. The resources present Catholic teaching in a way that young people can understand. Edge answers the needs of this age group in a catechetical, fun, and relevant way and provides a foundation for youth to continue onto Life Teen. We pray our Young Church and families will be inspired not just by this new style of Youth Ministry but ultimately by Christ and His love for each of us. God is good! We give Him all our passion, our heart, our lives, and our dreams to go out and live His mission. FOLLOW Group @Sttims_LT @Sttims_LT US St Tims Life Teen
RETREATS High School LIFE TEEN Unstoppable Fall Retreat September 22-24 Each year our St. Timothy youth ministry takes two weekend retreats. Our Confirmation students are required to attend at least one weekend retreat. This is also a good way for students who are not in Confirmation to come and get to know other teens, have lots of fun, and grow in their faith. This year s Fall Retreat is at Lakewood Retreat Center in Brooksville. Cost is $80 registration due September 8 th. Details and registration is on our web site. High School LIFE TEEN In The Flesh Spring Retreat February 2-4 All High School students and their friends are welcome. Confirmation Students, this is the last chance to sign up for a weekend retreat if you did not attend the fall retreat. Come get a heart transplant on this powerful weekend of conversion. Cost is $80 registration due January 19 th. Details and registration is on our web site. Confirmation Day Retreat & Rehearsal April 28 w 8am-2pm This is a mandatory day retreat for parents, sponsors and students getting confirmed. Retreat is located at St. Timothy.
FALL/SPRING HS CALENDAR High School LIFE TEEN Ministry 9 th -12 th Grade Sunday Nights following the 5:30pm Teen Mass 6:30pm Beginning With Meal In The Hall 8:30pm Pick Up In The Youth Center Date Time Event Location August 20th 6:30pm Parents ONLY Night- Includes Dinner Parish Hall Aug 27th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Kick off Night Confirm session Start in Hall Sept 3rd 6:30-8:30p Pizza, Adoration, Reconciliation Start in hall Sept 10th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen & Confirmation session Start in Hall Sept 17th 6:30-8:30p Life Teen Sept 22-24 see website Fall Retreat-Lakewood (Fri eve to Sunday afternoon) Brooksville Sept 24th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall Oct 1st 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in Hall Oct 8th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in Hall Oct 15th 6:30-8:30pm Lifeteen Start in hall Oct 22nd see bulletin No Lifeteen Enjoy Parish Picnic Fri-Sun Oct 29th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall Nov 5th 6:30-830p Lifeteen Start in hall Nov 12th 6:30-8:30 Lifeteen Start in hall Nov 19th 6:30-8:30pm Lifeteen Start in hall Nov 26th No Lifeteen Happy Thanksgiving Dec 3rd 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall Dec 10th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in Hall 17-Dec 6:30-8:30 Make gifts for homebound "Holiday Hugs" Start in hall Dec 24th Dec 31st No Lifeteen Christmas Break No Lifeteen New Years Jan 7th 6:30-8:30 Lifeteen Start in hall Jan 14th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen & Confirmation session Start in hall Jan 21st 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen & Confirmation session Start in hall Jan 28th 6:30-8:30 Lifeteen & Confirmation session Start in hall Feb 2-4th see website Winter Retreat (Fri eve to Sun afternoon) Brooksville Feb 4th No Lifeteen SUPERBOWL Feb 11th 6:30-8:30 Parish Mission Speaker Start in hall Feb 18th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen & Confirmation Session start in hall Feb 25th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen & Confirmation Session start in hall March 4th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall March 11th 6:30-8:30p Open GYM-pizza Start in hall 18-Mar 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall March 25th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall 1-Apr No Lifeteen- Easter Sunday April 8th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall April 15th 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall April 22nd 6:30-8:30p Lifeteen Start in hall April 28th 8a-2p Sat One Day Confirmation Retreat (teen/sponsor/parent) REHEARSAL Parish Hall April 29th 5:30-8:30p Senior Graduation Mass & EOY BASH Start in halll TBA TBA Confirmation Mass (meet in hall 4:30p) Main Church Every Lifeteen NIGHT *Following 5:30 Mass, Meal in Parish Hall
FALL/SPRING MS CALENDAR Middle School EDGE Ministry 6 th -8 th Grade Wednesday Nights 6:45pm-8:15pm In The Youth Center 6:45pm Beginning With Open Gym In Youth Center 8:15pm Pick Up In The Youth Center Date Time Event Location Sept 6th 7:00pm Parents ONLY Night Youth Center Sept 13th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Kickoff Night Youth Center Sept 20th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Sept 27th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Oct 4th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Oct 11th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Oct 18th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Oct 20-22 Enjoy Parish Festival Fri-Sun Hall/Youth Ctr Oct 25th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Nov 1st 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Nov 8th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Nov 15th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Nov 22nd 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Thanksgiving Break Nov 29th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Dec 6th 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Parish Mission Church Dec 13th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Christmas Party/Gift Exchange Youth Center Dec 18-21 4:00-8:00pm No EDGE Holiday Hugs Serve Week/Caroling Youth Center Dec 27th 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Winter Break Jan 3rd 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Winter Break Jan 10th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Jan 17th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Jan 24th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Jan 31st 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Feb 7th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Feb 14th 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Ash Wednesday (Valentines Day) Church Feb 21st 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Feb 28th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Mar 7th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Mar 14th 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Spring Break Mar 21st 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Mar 28th 6:45-8:15p No EDGE- Holy Week Apr 4th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Apr 11th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Apr 18th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center Apr 25th 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center May 2nd 6:45-8:15p EDGE Night Youth Center May 9th 7:00-9:00p No EDGE- Summer Break May 16th 7:00-9:00p Wed Summer Life Begins- Open GYM for Middle & High Youth Center Every EDGE NIGHT *Begins at 6:45pm with 15min Open Gym in Youth Center
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES Sign up to help in any one of these opportunities on our web site under Service Links or email jen.linder@sainttims.org for more information. http://www.sainttims.org/faith-formation/youth/senior-high-school/ GIFTED (Special Needs) Ministry Saturday, Aug. 26 6pm-8pm w Saturday, Sep. 16 6pm-8pm w Saturday, Nov. 18 6pm-8pm We need 6 High School students to help with crafts and activities with our special needs parishioners as well as serve dinner in the Youth Center for families with special needs children. Pancake Breakfast (Hosted By The Men s Club) Sunday, September 10 w 8am-1:30pm We need 12 High School or Middle School youth to help set up and serve Pancake Breakfast. This is an opportunity to raise money for any Youth Ministry trip or receive community service hours. Cards For The Nursing Homes & The Angelus Monday, October 9 w 9am-3pm It s a day off of school. No better way to use that day then to serve those in need. We need students to come to the Youth Center to make cards for those in nursing homes. Then we will go deliver them and visit residence with Cerebral Palsy at the Angelus. Parent & Adult drivers needed. St. Timothy Fall Festival Friday, October 20 w 5pm-9pm & Saturday, October 21 (Three shifts: Check online for details) We need 10 students to help serve Hamburgers, Hotdogs, Snow Cones, Popcorn & Cotton Candy. This is an opportunity to raise money for any Youth Ministry trip or receive community service hours. Santa Maria Mission (Soup Kitchen) Tuesday, Nov. 21 w 8am-12:30pm We need 12 students to help us serve 150 meals for our brothers and sisters at Santa Maria in Tampa. 200 Hands For Mary (At Mary Help of Christians) Saturday, December 9 w 8am-2pm Students will be painting, cleaning, and restoring the Mary Help Of Christians Center in Tampa. Transportation and lunch provided, meeting at Youth Center. Parent & Adult drivers needed. FACT: If you served in every opportunity that Youth Ministry has to offer on this page you could get up to 70 Community Service Hours this Fall. St. Timothy Toy Drive & Family Adoption Service Project December 9-11 (Multiple Times & Locations At Parish, Check Online fore details) We need help from students to sort gifts, bag gifts, and carry them to the Hall. We are also looking for families to donate toys in the Church lobby before Masses that weekend. Holiday Hugs Gift Delivery Monday, December 18 w 4pm-8pm & Tuesday, December 19 w 4pm-8pm Students will deliver Christmas Gifts to St. Timothy elderly, homebound, and sick. Parent and Adult Driver Volunteers Needed as well. We will have pizza for students at the Youth Center before deliveries are being made. Sign Up online for Holiday Hugs project or we have a sign up board in the Youth Center. Holiday Hugs Caroling Wednesday, December 20 w 4pm-8pm & Thursday, December 21 w 4pm-8pm Students will be going door to door of our St. Timothy elderly, homebound and sick to sing carols at their homes and pray with those who could use the Christmas cheer!!! Parent and Adult Driver Volunteers are needed as well. You don't have to be a good singer but you need to have a big heart and big smile.
Serving At Mass Student Ushering, Student Lectoring & Student Eucharist Minister Training Wednesday, August 16 th w 6:30 w Youth Center We need students who are interested in helping usher, lector or become a Eucharist minister at the 5:30pm Mass. Join us at this first training given by Fr. Kevin if you are feeling called. SUMMER TRIPS Dominican Republic Mission Trip Tentative Date: June 4 th -9 th Youth Ministry is excited to announce that we will be taking a week long Mission Trip to the Dominican Republic. The trip is located in the town, La Victoria, outside of the capital of Santo Domingo. The trip will be as much a mission trip as it is an emersion experience and pilgrimage. We will be staying at the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary Convent and Retreat Center where there is a beautiful shrine dedicated to the Blessed Mother. The focus of the trip is to build relationships with the poor there, handing out food baskets to the severely needy and praying with them, ministering to the children through a VBS and block party, helping care for children in a nutrition center, painting, and laying down concrete floors for homes expenses. There is limited space on this trip. Students 15 years old and under at the time of the trip must have a parent go with them. Reserve your spot by turning in the registration form found online along with $150 deposit. Middle School Hidden Lake EDGE Camp $150 Deposit Due September 10 th (Camp Dates TBD) Summer Camp with EDGE Life Teen in Dahlonega, GA is an incredible opportunity to bring your teens into an incredible experience of life. Middle school teens are able to able to be free and confident in themselves, develop new friendships with other teens from your parish, and encounter God working in their lives. The cost of this trip is $650. Reserve your spot by turning in the registration form found online along with $150 deposit. High School Covecrest Life Teen Camp $150 Deposit Due September 10 th (Camp Dates TBD) Life Teen Summer Camp in Tiger, GA is an amazing opportunity to allow teens to be free and confident in themselves, develop new friendships with other teens from our parish, and encounter God working in their lives. This trip includes a white water rafting experience they will never forget. The cost of this trip is $650. Reserve your spot by turning in the registration form found online along with $150 deposit. Good Samaritan Project (GSP) Camp Dates TBD This is a local Mission Trip week at Bishop McLaughlin High School. The vision of the Good Samaritan Project is to bring youth to the poor and underprivileged members of the Tampa Bay area through service and prayer. Registration will open mid February.
How can parents and other volunteers get involved? Food Ministry On Sunday evenings we intentionally feed our High School students before we start on Sunday night. This is not done just to get food in their stomachs, but we recognize the need for them to sit around a dinner table together with their mentors as an important Text The Word: STLT To: 84576 To Get Youth Ministry Text Message Updates part of the ministry to build relationships. Food is prepared by a group of parents or other parish ministries, such as our Men s Club who provides dinner once a month. Becoming A Mentor Youth Ministry is predominately made up of our mentors. Our mentors develop and plan our Youth Ministry Nights and are part catechist, part cheerleader, and part sympathetic ear for the students. Mentors commit to either Sunday nights with High School Students or Wednesday nights with our Middle School Students. We are always in need of adult and parent mentors to commit each year for our fall and spring semesters. In the summer we invite our college students to join the mentor team for the summer semester. Retreat Team Lifeteen and EDGE are also in need of leaders who can help plan and implement our Youth Ministry Retreats. These are overnight retreats that help lead students to encounter Christ in a special way. Other Ways To Help We are always looking for helping hands who are good doing behind the scenes set up, clean up meals, build environments, send out birthday cards, help in the office and run our café in the Youth Center. Prayer Most importantly, we need committed volunteers to pray for our students. Anybody can do this from wherever you are however; we would like to coordinate with those who pray for our students so that we can share the student s specific prayer requests with our prayer warriors. There are so many things that our students need prayer for and the more volunteers we are able to get to pray for our students the more grace will be poured out into this ministry. For more information about these ministries, please contact Justin Lantz, Director of Youth Ministry at justin.lantz@sainttims.org or Jennifer Linder, Youth Ministry Coordinator at jen.linder@sainttims.org. We are always looking for willing hearts to join us! College Student Summer Mentors leading a game of slip n slide kickball. Summer time is all about playing hard and PRAYING harder!!! St. Timothy Catholic Church w 17512 Lakeshore Rd. Lutz, FL w (813)968-1077